Long-Term Trends and Policy Challenges in Chilean Agricultural Labor Markets

• Autores: Gustavo Anríquez
• Localización: Ciencia e investigación agraria: revista latinoamericana de ciencias de la agricultura, ISSN-e 0718-1620, Vol. 48, Nº. 3, 2021, págs. 210-232
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper identifies the major long-term trends in agricultural labor markets in Chile. The document shows the increasing aging, feminization, and seasonality of the agricultural labor force. Long-term projections are made regarding the evolution of labor supply and demand based on demographic and economic trends. These projections suggest the continuation of the already existing trends of a decreasing supply of labor and an increasing demand for agricultural labor, mostly driven by the substitution of crops into labor-intensive but higher-value export crops. Hence, the paper predicts a continuation of the trend of rapidly increasing labor costs in agriculture. The paper discusses the challenges imposed on farmers and policy-makers of confronting these rapidly growing labor costs by continually raising farm labor productivity.